Quartet playing in Bowling Green tonight

Murfreesboro, Tenn., quartet Imaginary Baseball League will headline an indie-pop rock showcase of sorts at Spencer’s Coffeehouse tomorrow night before heading north for a gig in Dayton, Ohio. Lead singer Aaron Robinson said the band is pumped about the show.

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Boxing competition challenges fraternities

In spite of several bloody noses and bruised egos, most of the fighting ended with affectionate signs of respect among the 24 men who gave and took a beating Thursday night. The crowd of supporters that showed up for the first-ever Battle of the Greeks, on the other hand, had some choice words for the judges and outcomes of the event, which was sponsored by Sigma Chi fraternity and cost an estimated $4,500.

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iPod Nation

The tip of a white-crested wave is building. It is propelled by the currents born when pop culture meets technology meets one of the world’s most consumed forms of art. The iPod. iPods offer the opportunity to live life in surround sound cinema style – to put to music even the most mundane daily activities, to walk to the words of the music that moves you.

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‘Perfect Confusion’ hits it big in local rock scene

Having no idea the night would introduce them to one of the biggest local music acts since Nappy Roots, Bryan Stuart, 22, of Lafayette, Ind., and William “Weejy” Rogers, 21, of Clarksdale, Miss., found Perfect Confusion last September at a local bar they visited in an attempt to meet people in Bowling Green.

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Students address racism on campus

His death, pronounced just after 8 p.m. on April 6, 1968, will dim his wife’s eyes.

It will stonewall the minds of his four children who, for years, will struggle to understand why their father’s hands no longer fuel swing sets in city parks.

It will bring a congregation and the better part of a divided nation to its knees.

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War Torn

own!” Muhamed Zimic screams. “Get down!” But it’s too late. The six or seven of them riddle Adail’s chest with bullets – each one bursting through the flesh of his back, throwing meat and blood and finally Adail on the sun-scorched yellow mountain grass. Enraged, Zimic clears the lip of the bunker wildly shooting his own gun. He kills three of the approaching soldiers.

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Crossing ‘Miss’ter Western

In the end, it was the lady in red who was crowned, center stage, and handed a sparkling plastic tiara and bouquet of roses. She stood perfectly poised, blushing and waiving at an adoring audience in a sequined two-piece evening gown. And for a moment it was almost easy to overlook the plaid boxer shorts peeking over the lip of her skirt.
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Prisoners to benefit blind

Grammy nominee and founding member of Wet Willy, Jimmy Hall will be in Bowling Green this weekend with his band, Jimmy Hall and the Prisoners of Love. The Friday night show will be held at Ellis Place State Street Pub. Hall has toured with bands like The Allman Brothers, Grateful Dead and Grand Funk Railroad and has lead Hank Williams Jr. Bama Band.
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Photographer to share war story

What does war look like? How does it smell? Taste? Does its voice ever leave the ears it has reached? The closest many Americans have come to the realities of the war in Iraq is the distance between themselves and the glass screens of their TV transmitting heavily-edited bits of satellite signal from the Middle East.

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Students to sell birdhouses for Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity is in the business of building houses for people who need them. In order to do that, they are first building houses for birds. More than 50 Western students worked since September to build birdhouses to sell at the university’s fourth Annual Holiday Bazaar to raise money for the materials they need to provide someone with a home.
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